Oasis pushes open standards

The international open standards consortium, Oasis, has formed a new group to standardise a Web services interface specification that will enable greater interoperability of enterprise content management (ECM) systems, says Market Watch.

The Oasis content management interoperability services (CMIS) technical committee will advance an open standard that uses Web services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable information to be shared across Internet protocols in vendor-neutral formats, among document systems, publishers and repositories, within and between companies.

With CMIS, users do not need unique applications to access each ECM repository. The specification provides easy mapping to existing ECM systems. Web technologies, including Web 2.0, Internet scale, service-orientation and resource-orientation, are all exploited in CMIS.

Open Text, a provider of enterprise content management, has revealed that SAP will resell Open Text Vendor Invoice Management under the name SAP Invoice Management application by Open Text, reports The Earth Times.

As part of this agreement, SAP will also resell Open Text's document capture solution Invoice Capture Centre, from Open Text's recent acquisition of Captaris, under the name Optical Character Recognition option for SAP Invoice Management.

This builds on the reseller agreement signed by the two companies last year and demonstrates continued evidence of SAP's ecosystem strategy to deliver additional choice and flexibility to customers looking to extend the value of their SAP investments.

Vital Path has released PathBuilder Studio, its latest generation content migration software, designed to put the control of unregulated content in the hands of the business user, moving migration projects from the back office to the desktop, says Market Watch.

PathBuilder Studio allows corporations to easily migrate content from one or multiple sources into enterprise content management repositories, a problem that until now did not have an efficient, secure solution.

"With PathBuilder Studio, not only do we put migration tasks in the hands of the end-user, we offer a clear migration path to more complicated, multi-repository migrations involving both regulated and unregulated content," says Jay Rothe, president of Vital Path.